Tammy Duckworth Quotes
The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I've worked with Judd since 'Undeclared,' and once you work with Judd you never stop working with Judd.
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A library is a room where the murders take place.
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The best works are often those with the fewest and simplest elements.. ..until you look at them a little more, and things start to happen.
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Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.
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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
